CASE SUMMARY

On February 18, 2022, Kansas’s Secretary of State and Wyandotte County’s Election Commissioner filed a petition with the Kansas Supreme Court seeking the dismissal of two state constitutional partisan gerrymandering challenges to the state’s congressional plan that were then-pending in Kansas district courts, Rivera v. Schwab and Alonzo v. Schwab. Petitioners argued no valid cause of action for partisan gerrymandering or standard for evaluating such claims existed under the Kansas Constitution and sought a court order directing the district court to stay and ultimately dismiss those actions.

  • On March 4, 2022, the Kansas Supreme Court denied the petition on the grounds the petitioners didn’t qualify for mandamus or quo warranto relief and made clear that in deciding the case, it didn’t reach or consider the merits of the underlying partisan gerrymandering claims.

Related Cases: Rivera v. Schwab; Alonzo v. Schwab

CASE LIBRARY

Kansas Supreme Court - No. 124849